Quotes About Autonomy

Pero, aunque indispensable, la organización también puede ser fatal. La organización excesiva transforma a hombres y mujeres en autómatas, sofoca el espíritu creador y suprime la misma posibilidad de la libertad.

Avevano bisogno di trovare quel destino in se stessi: di dimostrare che una certa quale grandezza la possedevano senza bisogno che nessun altro gliela concedesse, né uomini, né re, né Dio.

My Grandma once told me 'the Church should stay out of people's pants'.

la mayoría de personas disfrutaba de seguir al líder. Les liberaba de la obligación de pensar por sí mismos.

Disobedience is one of the few tricks you have left to hang on to the idea that you continue to exist distinctively and are still reliably connected to the person who bore your name on the outside.

When you allow people to do what they wish, then that is what they do. They stop doing the things they need to do.

The trouble with this country...is that we are utterly surrounded by busybodies trying to stop us doing things. Or telling us what to do...Big Brother, with his ubiquitous closed-circuit cameras-which now monitored, it seemed, every square inch of public space-and his condescending imprecations and warnings, was everywhere...In his view, it was up to the individual whether or not to approach a cliff edge; it was not the Government's business.

the problem with governments these days. They want to do things all the time; they are always very busy thinking of what things they can do next. That is not what people want. People want to be left alone to look after their cattle.

The important thing is to carry on doing what you're doing,' she said. 'And not to do what you think other people think you should do. You should do what you do as well as you possibly can.

Number 1," read Dr Fairbairn. "People making me do things I don't want to do. I hate this. I hate this. Every day I have to do things that other people want me to do and it leaves me no time to do any of the things I want to do. And nobody asks me what I want to do, anyway.

when people ask for advice they very rarely want your advice and will go ahead and do what they want to do anyway, no matter what you say.

People had to be left to make their own mistakes, even if the rest of us could see quite clearly the dangers that lay ahead.

When people ask for advice they very rarely want your advice and will go ahead and do what they want to do anyway, no matter what you say. That applied in every sort of case; it was a human truth of universal application, but one which most people knew little or nothing about.

That was what academic freedom was all about, Herr Huber thought. It was the freedom to do what one liked and not be challenged by people lower down the pecking order who did not like what you did.

I'm going to make a world for myself by my rules, not anybody else's. Don't worry about me. I'm going to learn to be happy.

Leadership selection constitutes another operational test of whether a ranked system exists. The leadership of a subordinate group must be acceptable to the superordinate group, which is usually in a position to reject unacceptable leaders. Influence or prestige within the subordinate group by itself is not enough. Lack of group autonomy in leadership selection is a sure sign of ethnic subordination

In retrospect, the reason for her decision seems evident. Our Noriko, for so many years troubled by the demands of society on one hand and the needs of the self on the other, finally decided. She would do what she wanted. And she did. All attempts to lure her out over the years have been rebuffed. When a documentary was made on Ozu, she refused to appear, just as, when he died, she did not attend his funeral. Setsuko Hara was her own person at last. On Japanese actress Setsuko Hara

Strive to make proposed solutions as self-executing as possible. As the degree of discretion increases, so too does bureaucracy, delay, and expense.

she began to choose her own projects, Marilyn

To be a highly functional system, hierarchy must balance the welfare, freedoms, and responsibilities of the subsystems and total system—there must be enough central control to achieve coordination toward the large-system goal, and enough autonomy to keep all subsystems flourishing, functioning, and self-organizing.

There is a systematic tendency on the part of human beings to avoid accountability for their own decisions.

Heed my words, daughter, if you ever mean to be happy: Never give yourself to a man.

The educational process must again provide the opportunity for students to make choices and live with the consequences of these choices. Teaching is not simply telling people what to believe and do.

We are not the victims of our circumstances; we are the creators of them!